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Definition: SPENSERIAN |
SPENSERIANAdjective1. Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene." |
Date "SPENSERIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Crosswords: SPENSERIAN |
| English words defined with "SPENSERIAN": Edmund Spenser ♦ Spenser, Spenserian stanza. (references) |
| "SPENSERIAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SPENSERIAN" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SPENSERIAN": spenserian sonnet ♦ spenserian stanza. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sonnet spenserian | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SPENSERIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | spenseriano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enserianspay estância spenseriana (spenserian stanza). (various references) spenser'e özgü. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "SPENSERIAN" (pronounced 'Spen*se"ri*an'): Abderian, Absinthian, Academian, Academician, Acadian, Acanthopterygian, Acaridan, Achean, Achillean, Acoustician, Acritan, Acroceraunian, Acropolitan, Adamantean, Adessenarian, Adonean, Adrian, AEgean, AEolian, AEonian, AEsculapian, AEsthetican, Ahriman, Airman, Airwoman, Alabastrian, Alan, Alban, Albanian, Albigensian, Aldebaran, Alderman, Alexandrian, Algerian, Algonkian, Algonquian, Alkoran, Alloxan, Almsman, Alogian, Alongshoreman, Alphabetarian, Altitudinarian, Amatorian, Amazonian, Amebean, Ametabolian, Amoebean, Amoebian, Amphigean. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-n-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: anserines, passerine. | |
-2 letters: anserine, ensnares, erepsins, insnares, naperies, nearness, panniers, rennases, ripeness, spanners, spinners. | |
-3 letters: aperies, arsines, asperse, aspires, ensnare, erepsin, insaner, insnare, inspans, paniers, pannier, pansies, pareses, paresis, parises, penises, penners, pennies, perinea, pinenes, pinners, praises, rapines, rennase, repines, sapiens, seiners, serapes, sereins, serines, siennas, sinners, snipers, spanner, spinner, spireas, sprains. | |
-4 letters: aeries. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-n-p-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: nonpasserine, pensionaries. | |
+3 letters: apprehensions, arsphenamines, isoprenalines, painterliness, presentations. | |
+4 letters: affenpinschers, antidepressant, antidepression, graspingnesses, nonperishables, overexpansions, prankishnesses, snippersnapper, stepparentings, transparencies. | |
+5 letters: antidepressants, antidepressions, importunateness, impregnableness, inoperativeness, inseparableness, intemperateness, misapprehension, painterlinesses, parthenogenesis, precipitantness, predestinarians, predestinations, representations, semitransparent, septuagenarians, snippersnappers, transparentizes. | |
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